A new MAC exhibit brings Pompeii’s victims of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption back to vivid life

Italy’s Pompeii is the stuff of legend, conjuring images of humans huddled or sprawled as if in torment, forever encased in the massive cloud of hot ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius, which erupted in 79 AD. And yet, as the new Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture’s exhibit Pompeii: The Immortal City illustrates, life in Pompeii has transcended time. The exhibition presents a kind of living history gracefully preserved through careful study of its remains, balancing the destructive potential of an active volcano with a celebration of first century Roman life.

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